DMD on Haiku?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 30 October 2012 05:41, Alex Rønne Petersen <alex at lycus.org> wrote:
> On 29-10-2012 23:36, Isak Andersson wrote:
>>
>> Hello D-folks!
>>
>> I was just wondering if it would be possible to make DMD build out of
>> the box for Haiku (haiku-os.org) with the source from the official DMD
>> repo. Haiku is pretty darn POSIX compliant so the actual porting isn't
>> much of a problem. DMD has ran on Haiku before a while ago and shouldn't
>> have any problem doing it now. From what I hear from the Haiku community
>> it was just to add a bunch of ifeq Haiku and stuff to make it build and
>> run fine.
>>
>> What I want though is to get these things in to the main source of DMD,
>> applying patches and stuff like that is a pain, it is so much better to
>> just be able to clone and build without problems. So what I wanted to
>> ask is: would Digital Mars accept a pull request to make DMD build on
>> Haiku to their main branch on Github? I just wanted to know for sure
>> before I go ahead and fork DMD to do this.
>>
>> Cheers!
>
>
> Do note that getting DMD, druntime, and phobos running on Haiku will take a
> lot of porting work. To name a few things:
>
> * All preprocessor #ifs in DMD for POSIX need to have Haiku added.
> * In all likelihood, DMD's port wrapper needs updating for Haiku.
> * druntime's POSIX headers all need to be updated for Haiku.
> * Any Haiku-specific header modules need to be added to druntime.
> * DMD, druntime, and phobos all need to be tested and debugged.
> * Probably other things I forgot.
>
> (This is all assuming Haiku is POSIX-compliant. If it isn't, it's going to
> be even more work, since most of druntime has two code paths: One for
> Windows and one for POSIX.)
>

Next, we'll be making dlang.org html, xhtml-strict, and haiku compliant... :o)

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Iain Buclaw

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